All registered members with valid COMSATS ID Card are entitled to borrow library materials

When you get your COMSATS ID card than you can get your required library material within borrowing terms and conditions

If your card is lost or stolen, be sure to let us know immediately. You will be held responsible for any items checked out on your card.

The borrowing privileges for different membership categories are:

Category	Borrowing Privileges	Time Period
Undergraduate students	01	One Month
Graduate students	02	One Month
Postgraduate students (MS/MPhil/PhD)	04	One Month
Professors/Deans/Consultants/Associate Professors	10	One Semester
Assistant Professors	10	One Semester
Lecturers/Research Associates/Teaching Assistants	10	One Semester
Staff (leisure reading books)	02	One Semester

When you gat your library cards than you can get your required library material within borrowing terms and conditions.

Yes, you can renew a book for a further loan period, if someone has not reserved the same.

To keep a book for another borrowing period, visit the library circulation desk along with the book to be renewed. The staff on duty will re-issue the book to you if another user has not reserved it. Overdue books will not be renewed.

On each checked out material, you will find a due date stamp on its date slip. If you renew the book online, you can see the due date on activity menu at portal

No. No one can check out books on someone else's behalf

Books already checked-out by some other user can be reserved. At the circulation counter you can reserve the checked-out items.

If a hold has been placed on one of your books, you may not renew it. Please return it by the due date. The library may recall any material issued to you. You must return the book by the shortened due date in order to avoid fines.

Yes.

A fine begins accruing as soon as the book is overdue.

Report it immediately in black and white at the circulation desk so that your overdue fine can be stopped. Then you will be charged five times the current price of the book.

In case you damage library material, the policy for "Book Lost" will be implemented.

Yes, it is. We understand the temptation to mark books in order to aid your studying or research, but keep in mind what might help you will most certainly make it more difficult for someone else to use the book. Besides, it's simply bad for the books. You will most definitely be fined a replacement charge for any books which have been damaged by underlining or highlighting.

Rs. 10/- per book per day. On short loaned items, Rs. 100/- per book per day.

At the circulation counter, you will receive the fine slip of your over due items. Take this slip to the Accounts Office and get the bank voucher. You have to submit the amount in the Bank and will submit the bank receipt at circulation desk for fine clearance.

Your library account will be terminated until the fine clearance.

The CUI have the Books for Loan Reference Services, Digital library services, Pro-active and Current awareness services, International Photocopy Services, Inter Library Loan (ILL), Photocopying facility, Bibliographic services, Reservation, Scanning and printing, Computer workstation and. WI-FI facility.

OPAC is available to search the library resources. If you have any problem than you may contact the Library Help Desk.

The CUI have the Books for Loan Reference Services Periodicals, Journals & Newspapers, Computerized database, Pro-active and Current awareness services, International Photocopy Service, International Loan Service, Inter Library Loan (ILL), Books information service, Reservation, Help Desk and Photocopying Facility for library patrons.